Author: Harry Houdini CollectionPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337656041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania
Author: Harry Houdini CollectionPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337656041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate Modern Spiritualism
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern SpiritualismPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The book 'Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate Modern Spiritualism' by the University of Pennsylvania Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism is a groundbreaking study on the phenomenon of modern spiritualism. This detailed report provides a comprehensive analysis of various spiritualist practices and manifestations, shedding light on the cultural and social context in which they arose. The writing style is scholarly and objective, presenting empirical evidence and testimonies gathered by the Commission. The book offers a unique insight into the spiritualist movement of the 19th century and its impact on society. The investigative approach of the Commission adds credibility to the findings and conclusions presented in the report. The University of Pennsylvania Seybert Commission was established in response to the growing interest in spiritualism during the 19th century. Composed of esteemed scholars and researchers, the Commission aimed to provide a scientific and rational analysis of spiritualist phenomena. The authorship of the report reflects the expertise and academic rigor of the University of Pennsylvania, enhancing the scholarly value of the book. I highly recommend 'Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate Modern Spiritualism' to readers interested in the history of spiritualism, paranormal phenomena, and scientific investigations of the supernatural. This book offers a fascinating glimpse into a significant cultural movement and the efforts to understand and analyze unexplained phenomena.
The Unitarian Review
Author: Charles LowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: The Independent
Author: The Independent
Author: Leonard BaconThe Emergence of the Fourth Dimension
Author: Mark BlacklockPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192551884
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre fiction and influenced a number of important Modernist writers and artists. Providing a context for thinking of space in dimensional terms, the volume describes an active interplay between self-fashioning disciplines and a key moment in the popularisation of science. It offers new research into spiritualism and the Theosophical Society and studies a series of curious hybrid texts. Examining works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, the volume explores how new theories of the possibilities of time and space influenced fiction writers of the period, and how literature shaped, and was in turn shaped by, the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn. A timely study of the interplay between philosophy, literature, culture, and mathematics, it offers a rich resource for readers interested in nineteenth century literature, Modernist studies, science fiction, and gothic scholarship.
Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920 Vol 3
Author: Shane McCorristinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000561461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.
The Seybert Report
Author: Elizabeth Schleber LowryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319615122
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
This book is a rhetorical analysis of the "Seybert Report," based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in Spiritualist séances. The findings of the report are significant because they provide a historical benchmark for how “paranormal” research--or psi--has been addressed by academics for well over a century. Elizabeth Schleber Lowry examines academic discourse with respect to psi from such approaches as the rhetoric of science and scholarship in the history and philosophy of science.
Shakespiritualism
Author: J. KahanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137313552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies.